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Southwell Leaves News and Information from Southwell Minster Southwell Leaves News and Information from Southwell Minster April /May 2020 £2.50 www.southwellminster.org Follow us on twitter @SouthwMinster 1 Southwell Leaves April-May 2020 Contents… House Groups House Groups 2 Welcome 3 ith the beginning of Bible Verses for Reflection 3 W Lent the 2019/2020 From the Dean 4 Minster House Group series From Canon Precentor/ Pause for Thought 5 came to an end. As previously some seventy people had The Man from Galilee 6/7 gathered in groups of between Leaves of Southwell Dementi, Mental ten and five, fortnightly between September and the beginning of Advent, and Health & Learning Disabilities Outreach again a few times between Christmas and Shrove Tuesday. In response to requests for bible study the suggested theme was material from the Bible Project 7 Society’s Word lyfe stream. This focuses on three areas – being immersed in Meet Jonny Allsopp 8 the word of God, sharing faith and getting to know Jesus better. Over five Southwell Music Festival Launch 8 sessions the material suggested how scripture might offer ways of being immersed in the Christian message, of reflecting upon Jesus as saviour, of On the Road to Emmaus 9 sensing the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, of feeling how Christ’s Holocaust Memorial Day Event 10 followers are called to live distinctly different lives and how we might explore ways in which a post-Christian world might engage with the great story of National Holocaust Centre & Museum 11 Christ. New Bishop of Sherwood appointed 11 Son of Man / Some GreenTips 12 The material is quite structured and groups had differing experiences of it, but as ever the House Groups supported fellowship and learning together. New Dean for Climate Justice 13 Covid-19 is going to curtail gatherings for some time and we will have to take Foxes in Ashford 13 advice about when it might be safe to resume them. All that can be offered at Forgotten Fasts - forgotten Ways 14 present is thanks for the friendships they have supported and hope that these will continue to offer support through present difficult times. God’s great Reflections on Contemporary Church Life 15 message to humanity is that all can be redeemed and restored to its intended Education News 16 design. This is the message embodied in Jesus himself, rooted in the word of Inequalities of Health and Wealth 17 God, and ultimately expressed through the lives of those who follow Christ. It is a living tale of grace spoken in and through word and action. Books of Hours - Medieval Bestsellers 18 The Leaves of Southwell Conference Ecumenical Lent House Groups were arranged and got under way. They were to follow one of the York Courses; Superstar. The group I was involved with A Portuguese perspective 19 managed two meetings before we felt obliged to follow public health advice An update from the Lay Chair of and meet no more. A great shame. We were just beginning to get to know one Newark & Southwell Deanery Synod 20 another and learn from our differences. Let’s pray that by this time next year it will all be over and some sort of normality will have been resumed. Did you know... ? 21 Building progress 21 Hugh MIddleton Contacts 22/23 News & Views from Sacrista Prebend 24 Just to be clear 24 Subscription f you or friends you may know would like to take out an annual Front cover box/credit: I subscription and receive copies by post please send details of your name, address and telephone number with a cheque for £24:00, made out to Narcissi Verger planted in 2008 by our vergers, Southwell Cathedral Chapter, to Christine Kent, 16 Halloughton Road, in memory of William Vigar. Southwell, Notts, NG25 0LR. Photograph Christine Kent’ For more information please contact me on 01636 812750 or email: [email protected]. If you live in Southwell I will be happy to deliver your copies by hand and the annual cost will be £15:00. Join us on Facebook - Christine Kent (on behalf of the editorial team) search for southwell-minster and click 'like' to keep up to date with news and information. If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration for the next issue,lease p email your offering to [email protected] by 10th May 2020 . This magazine is produced and printed by Jubilate Communications CIC 2 Southwell Leaves April-May 2020 Welcome to the April/May edition of Southwell Leaves Our minds are dominated at present by the Covid-19 coronavirus and the ramifications of a worldwide pandemic. The Minster and its people are not immune to the anxiety and changes of plan which every institution is facing. The situation is unprecedented (an over-used word!) in recent history, and its closest parallel is the 1918/19 outbreak of Spanish flu. At the time of writing, the over-70s and those with existing health problems are barred from leaving their homes to avoid getting ill. Those on low wages and in the gig economy will be worst-hit, and food banks will be needed more than ever. Readers will know that all public church services have been cancelled, and we face a very unusual Holy Week and Easter this year. All the Minster’s core activities have been affected, and we have no ‘What’s On’ pages in this edition of Southwell Leaves. Daily prayer, which is one of the core functions of a cathedral, will continue but behind closed doors. As we go to press, the arrangement is that each day the clergy will pray Morning Prayer at 8.15am and Evening Prayer at 4.30pm. If we are online, we can download the Church of England Daily Prayer smart- phone app, or find it at home on our computer, Kindle or iPad; we can join in at the same time, commending the world and the Church into God’s care. Churches, including the Minster, are looking at ways of live- streaming services. The Family Communion on Mothering Sunday, led by the clergy and choir musicians, was broadcast on Youtube by a link on the Minster’s website; some future services will be found there too. Also members of the two prayer groups are keeping in touch with each other, and will pray in their own homes. The Minster will be open for private prayer daily from 9.15am till 4.30pm, so people can come in on their own, to pray or light candles. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote an open letter on March 17, pointing out that church services are only part of what churchesdo. ‘It has always been the historic vocation of the Church of England to be the church for everyone… This is a defining moment for the Church of England. Are we truly a church for all, or just the church for ourselves? We urge you, sisters and brothers, to become a different sort of church Bible Verses for Reflection in these coming months: hopeful and rooted in the offering ofprayer and praise and overflowing in service to the world.’ Dean Nicola writes about this in ‘From the Dean’. In Southwell, the Town Council, Churches Together and the Lions have got together to find ways of giving practical help for the isolated. eTh crisis is engendering a great sense of community. Cards like this (right) have been circulated in the town. urely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; Our articles give a picture of the pre- and post-Covid-19 concerns of the S Church, with reports on the Holocaust Memorial, the National Holocaust yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and Centre, and the appointment of Dean Hosam Naoum – well known to us afflicted. in Southwell – as coadjutor Bishop of Jerusalem. An article discusses But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our ethical issues surrounding health and wealth. There are reports on iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, meetings about worship and the house groups. The connection between and by his bruises we are healed. our carved leaves and caring for the vulnerable environment and Isaiah 53: 4-5 vulnerable people living in it is outlined in two articles. After he said this, Jesus showed them his hands and his side. Holy Week and Easter could pass us by. Tom Hislop has written about Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to the road to Emmaus, one of the Easter stories, as well as an article them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I about medieval Books of Hours which helped people of an earlier send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said generation to celebrate the Church’s seasons. Articles about Easter in to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.' the Orthodox tradition and about a play that dramatizes Jesus’ trial John 20: 20-22 before Pilate focus our minds on this special season. Our front cover reminds us that spring has arrived anyway. Ironically, Covid-19 has Suggestion for Reflective Reading, based on the ancient tradition resulted in less travel and therefore cleaner air; also snowdrops, of Sacred Reading ('Lectio Divina') primroses and daffodils have been particularly good this year. Read the verses slowly, perhaps more than once. Christianity is a faith rooted in hope; the Minster and daffodils illustrate If any word or phrase strikes you in particular, stay with it, that hope. repeating it quietly to yourself. Reflect about what God might be saying to you through this.
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